“Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast.“I went into therapy when I turned 40,” Ripa explained. “I bumped into a girlfriend of mine at a Bar Mitzvah and she said, ‘How are you?’ and I started sobbing, and I wasn’t entirely sure why.” “She said, ‘I’m going to write down the name of my therapist,'” the “Live with Kelly and Mark” host recalled with a laugh.“I really got to know myself,” Ripa said after going to therapy. “I really got to understand why I had such trouble embracing success of any kind.”The TV personality has always been candid about her struggles with social anxiety disorder.